Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ELIOT PORTER (1901-1990)
Glen Canyon Portfolio. With 10 (of 10) stunning photographs. Dye-transfer prints, each approximately 16x12 1/4 inches (40.6x31.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with Porter's signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and with a portfolio hand stamp with the edition limitation and publisher's information on mount verso. Elephant folio-sized clamshell box, cloth with gilt-lettered morocco title label; the colophon with Porter's signature and the edition notation 68/250; contents loose as issued. one of 250 numbered copies. New York: Daniel Wolf Press, Inc., 1980New York: Daniel Wolf Press, Inc., [1980]

Additional Details

From the Douglas Kenyon Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; to a Private Collector, circa 1981.

Coyote Gulch. Escalante River. August 17, 1971 Cliff, Moonlight Creek, San Juan River. May 23, 1962 Reflections in pool, Indian Creek, Escalante River. September 22, 1965 Redbud in bloom. Hidden Passage, Clen Canyon. April 10, 1963 Green reflections in stream. Moqui Creek, Glen Canyon. September 2, 1962 Amphitheater. Davis Gulch, Escalante basin. May 12, 1965 Escalante River outwash. Glen Canyon. September 2, 1962 Tamarisk and grass, river's edge. Glen Canyon. August, 1961 Waterslide from above. Long Canyon. September 21, 1965 Dungeon Cangyon. Glen Canyon. August 29, 1961.

Porter was the older brother of Fairfield Porter, the painter.